CCSP Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design Practice Question
A cloud provider offers a service with an SLA of 99.999% availability. What is the maximum allowable downtime per year in minutes? (Assume 365 days)
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5.26 minutes
99.999% availability means 0.001% downtime per year. Yearly minutes = 365 * 24 * 60 = 525,600. 0.001% of 525,600 = 5.256 minutes.
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8.76 minutes
Why it's wrong here
Miscalculation; corresponds to 99.998%.
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5.26 minutes
Why this is correct
Correct. 99.999% = 0.001% downtime = 5.256 minutes per year.
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0.526 minutes
Why it's wrong here
Miscalculation; ten times too small.
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52.6 minutes
Why it's wrong here
This corresponds to 99.99% availability.
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